PREVIEW SIMULATION · Modeled numbers. Cameras not connected.
CENTRAL中環心跳
CENTRAL, HONG KONG
SIMULATION PREVIEW A SMALL WINDOW ON CENTRAL

How busy
is Central?

Live foot-traffic data from Central
to Lan Kwai Fong.

Feel the pulse ↘Two corners.
One city’s heartbeat.
THE CENTRAL PULSE INDEXSIMULATED NOW
—/ 100 modeled typical
↗ Busy 熱鬧

Central’s finding its second wind.

42% above the Friday-evening baseline.

186crossings / min · rolling estimate
across both corners
LV3 · BUSY 熱鬧
LV1 — LV4
Starting simulation…

100 = modeled typical flow for the same weekday and hour.

01 / STREET LEVEL

Two corners. Different energies.

The daytime artery and the night-time gateway.
Crossings, never individual people.

01THE DAYTIME ARTERY↗

Queen’s Road Central

× D’Aguilar Street 皇后大道中

CENTRAL 中環
72crossings / min
18vehicles / min
THE CITY
ON THE MOVE
02THE NIGHT-ECONOMY GATE↗

Wellington Street

× D’Aguilar Street 威靈頓街 · 蘭桂坊入口

LAN KWAI FONG 蘭桂坊
114crossings / min
↗ Uphill 78↙ Downhill 36
THE NIGHT
IS YOUNG
02 / THE DAILY RHYTHM

Every hour tells a story.

PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS / HOUR
Today · simulatedTypical · modeled
00:00 — 23:00 · HONG KONG TIME (UTC+8)

Completed hours, compared with the modeled typical day.

AFTER DARK / BY DAY
—

The night has its own momentum.

Available after 18:00 HKT.

BEST MINUTE TODAY · SIMULATED
—crossings

A little high score.

Highest completed minute so far.

DEMO DATA
A CITY STORY, ONCE A WEEK.

Stay in the loop.
Not in the crowd.

A weekly look at Central’s rhythms, curious patterns,
and the stories between the numbers.

THE WEEKLY PULSE COMING SOON ↗Substack signup opens when the publication launches.
No email addresses are collected by this demo.

Behind the numbers

HOW IT WORKS

Count the movement.
Keep people private.

A personal project with a simple ambition: make the rhythm of Central visible, without making individuals visible.

01

Two windows. Two gateways.

The planned cameras look out from inside our office building, at Queen’s Road Central and Wellington Street where they meet D’Aguilar Street.

02

Only counts leave the edge.

The proposed edge device counts line crossings locally. Only per-minute totals leave it. No video feed, face recognition, demographics or individual tracking.

03

A little perspective, over time.

After approximately 4–8 weeks of baseline collection and validation, compare current pedestrian flow with the same weekday and time.

Where do the moving demo numbers come from? +

This is a deterministic simulation, not live camera data or a validated estimate. It follows Hong Kong time and updates rolling-minute figures every 10 seconds. Queen’s Road has assumed commute and lunch peaks; LKF has assumed late-evening peaks, stronger Friday/Saturday nights, and more downhill movement after midnight. Absolute street counts, direction splits, vehicle counts and noise are assumptions.

Transport Department: Central pedestrian schemes provides corridor context and Friday/Saturday 19:00–05:00 pedestrianisation hours. MTR’s September 2026 patronage release provides a citywide context factor: 4.887 million average weekday domestic journeys ÷ 4.696 million January–September mean ≈ 1.041. This scales both assumed typical and simulated volumes; it is not Central station or street data. Sources were reviewed on 6 November 2026 and are pinned, not connected as live feeds.

The demo index compares the rolling-minute flow with a modeled same-time baseline. Quiet/Normal/Busy/Packed use assumed combined thresholds of 35/110/220 crossings per minute; these are animation levels, not safety thresholds. The chart includes only elapsed completed simulated minutes; the current hour is partial. No future observations, real weather or events are claimed. Full assumptions & source snapshot ↗

What does the index actually measure? +

Planned formula: current combined pedestrian flow ÷ typical combined flow for the same weekday and hour × 100. Vehicles are excluded. A crossing is not a unique visitor, and the same person can cross more than once. Two monitored corners do not measure the whole district, venue occupancy, spending or safety. Tier thresholds and the current-flow averaging window will be documented before live publication.

How is the night-economy ratio defined? +

LKF-gate simulated crossings since 18:00 divided by Queen’s Road simulated crossings from 09:00–18:00 on the same Hong Kong calendar date. It is unavailable before 18:00 and partial while the evening is in progress. The windows are unequal: this describes relative flow, not economic output or occupancy.

What happens to footage and missing data? +

No cameras are connected to this preview. The live design processes frames locally, without long-term footage storage. Short calibration samples may be retained during the first approximately two weeks and deleted after manual-count review. Visible CCTV notices, a Privacy Impact Assessment and local privacy-lawyer review are launch requirements. Missing or stale readings will be marked unavailable, never silently replaced by zeros or demo data.

Can I quote or partner with LKF Pulse? +

You may share this preview as a concept, provided all figures are explicitly labeled illustrative. Do not cite these sample figures as observations. When live, snapshots are intended to include source, coverage, time window, Hong Kong timestamp and methodology version. LKF Pulse is an independent personal project; no government endorsement or affiliation with Lan Kwai Fong Group is claimed.

Street-art references & credits +

The office-corner scene combines the owner’s building photograph with a simplified Google Earth / Maps layout study. Queen’s Road uses reference photography. Buildings, street widths and lighting are stylized, not a surveyed model; every shop mark is redrawn as coarse pixel blocks. Queen’s Road photo: LauiADOAU 22523 / Wikimedia Commons. Wellington photo: Dorefuom 993 / Wikimedia Commons. Both photographs and their adapted scene artwork are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Queen’s Road changes: pixel-art stylization, overhead viewpoint, night lighting, abstracted signs, removed traffic and pedestrians. The camera and original animated people are illustrative. No shop affiliation is implied.